Stargate Platform Engineering Lead

About the Team

You will be part of the Stargate Center of Expertise (CoE) which is part of the recently established Group Data Services (GDS) organization.

The Stargate CoE consists of a team of enthusiastic data strategists, data engineers, architects and platform specialists dedicated to realizing the full potential of Swiss Re's data. We engage with all parts of the company, enabling them to formulate and execute data ambitions, to develop group-wide data assets and to provide data-driven products and services to our clients.

About the Role

Working in the Group Data Services (GDS) you will be the engineering lead and go to person for managing Stargate, a state of the art data platform at Swiss Re.

You and the team you will lead, will be responsible for:
- Leading the team of platform engineers, and driving together with the team the daily platform operations and enhancements
- Maintain the architecture for the infrastructure integration between Stargate and source systems: Swiss Re IT systems and external providers
- Managing the platform availability, monitoring the infrastructure as well as the performance of the platform and the hosted solutions
- Managing the platform access model and access operations
- Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with Stargate internal clients, stakeholders and power-user communities embedded in the business across Swiss Re
- Collaborating closely with Stargate core team and the platform vendor Palantir to plan and deploy platform enhancements and features
- Networking with data experts across Swiss Re to expand and use big data technologies across the firm
- Overseeing and coordinating customer support and document relevant topics in knowledge bases and guidelines
- Identifying areas of further automation to increase operational efficiency by leveraging platform operational data and operational analytics
- Designing architectural blueprints, developing flexible integration patterns and promoting them throughout Swiss Re
- Consulting and evangelizing best practices and patterns for implementation of Stargate analytics projects

*We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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